India to pass anti-internet-blasphemy type laws

Highly insulted by photo-shopped pictures of them, India's leaders try to pass laws to protect their "sensibilities". Freedom of speech, while nice, should not include offending religious representatives.

from STUMBLEUPON"Before the press conference, Mr Sibal showed reporters morphed photos of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, as well as pigs running through Islam's holy city of Mecca.

The minister said the government did not believe in interfering in the freedom of the press, but "we have to take care of the sensibilities of our people, we have to protect their sensibilities. Our cultural ethos is very important to us".